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[Siegfried's arrival in Worms; crossing bridge] – Vintage Print

[Siegfried's arrival in Worms; crossing bridge] — historic photograph
[Siegfried's arrival in Worms; crossing bridge]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Siegfried riding into Worms over a bridge is the moment this still captures from Fritz Lang's 1924 film *Siegfried*, the opening part of *Die Nibelungen*. The city is the seat of the Burgundian court in the story, drawn from the medieval epic the *Nibelungenlied*, which dates to about 1200. The Berlin studio Decla-Bioscop, which produced the film, registered the photograph for copyright that same year. The legend was familiar to German audiences of the 1920s, and the film's elaborate sets and stylized staging give its medieval world a deliberately monumental look.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notesc1924.
SubjectsNo. 16 in collection: Still photographs from the 1924 motion picture Siegfried, the first part of Die Nibelungen. Photo copyrighted in 1924 by Decla-Bioscop A.-G. Berlin. Old caption card tracings: Religion; Germany--History--5th century; Germany--Worms; Mythology; Motion Pictures; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,209 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137030

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